On 9/28/2020 10:10 PM, Albert Pundt wrote:
It seems another editor by the name of Fluffy89502 is going around
doing similar edits all over the US, even demoting divided, multi-lane
roads. Other users have commented on his changesets and he cites the
wiki's wording.
Yeah when I saw this topic I
On 8/5/2020 9:11 PM, Eric H. Christensen via Talk-us wrote:
Tropical Storm Isaias left several homes in my neighborhood severely damaged
and condemned. Is there a proper way to map these structures?
Thanks,
Eric
Hi Eric, I've used building=ruins (
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Tag:buil
HI Skyler, I'm also a NY mapper, welcome to the party!
You've probably gleaned by now that imports are a touchy subject in OSM.
Data license is part of the problem, since only the very most open of
open licenses are compatible with OSM. My assumption is that the NYS
address data will pass this te
On 7/14/2020 7:44 AM, Greg Troxel wrote:
Around me the norm is that residential driveways (98% of them) are not
signed no trespassing, but that it is considered reasonable to use them
if 1) you live there 2) you are delivering something 3) you are a guest
4) you are going there for some other rea
On 7/14/2020 4:53 AM, Mateusz Konieczny via Talk-us wrote:
Jul 14, 2020, 02:20 by jm...@gmx.com:
On 7/13/2020 4:09 PM, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
On 13/07/2020 15.16, Kevin Kenny wrote:
The immediate curtilage of a house is presumed to be
private; at least
On 7/13/2020 3:22 PM, Tod Fitch wrote:
Out of curiosity, I looked at the tagging of a neighborhood I know of
which has privately owned roads (maintained by the homeowner’s
association) but no gate blocking entry. There are signs indicating
that the roads are “private” but that state road regulati
On 7/13/2020 4:09 PM, Matthew Woehlke wrote:
On 13/07/2020 15.16, Kevin Kenny wrote:
The immediate curtilage of a house is presumed to be private; at least
in the US, one does not drive or walk directly up to someone's house
without having business there. (Someone making a delivery, obviously,
On 7/13/2020 12:59 PM, Alex Hennings wrote:
The /sole purpose/ of routing is to get the user to their destination
without breaking any laws. These are also /specifically my/ /goals
/when I'm using a router. Frequently (in my rural area) getting to my
destination requires using a privately owned
On 7/12/2020 6:03 PM, Mike Thompson wrote:
On Sun, Jul 12, 2020 at 10:28 AM Jmapb mailto:jm...@gmx.com>> wrote:
> The access -- somewhat common to find a pubic road imported with
access=private, so if I suspect this I'll leave the
> tiger:reviewed=no tag until access can be con
On 7/9/2020 6:48 PM, Kevin Kenny wrote:
Personally, I think even that much is overkill for deleting tiger:reviewed.
I think that surface, lanes, and traffic controls are things that a
mapper can notice are not mapped, irrespective of the TIGER review
status. There are lots of hand-mapped roads th
On 5/7/2020 8:05 PM, Bob Gambrel wrote:
So imagine this simple example. A path (of some sort) goes from point
A to B. Between points B and C there is no way (no path, road,
highway, cycle way, foot path, track, etc. Then there is another path
of some sort between points C and D. So the relationsh
On 3/19/2020 10:43 AM, Eric H. Christensen via Talk-us wrote:
Sure, I get that. The flip side is that it is likely to get confusing
what is open and when with all the changes occurring. It would be good
to have a resource to help people determine where they can go if they
need something.
When i
On 1/23/2020 8:14 PM, Shawn K. Quinn wrote:
On 1/23/20 17:29, Jmapb wrote:
However, truth be told, since the default map has ceased rendering
healthcare=*, I've found myself tagging anything smaller than a hospital
but larger than a doctor's office as amenity=clinic. For ex
On 1/23/2020 5:30 PM, Bill Ricker wrote:
My US doctor's office *is* a clinic, but that's because they were
previously an all in one HMO before merger/spinoff. On-site blood lab,
x-ray, specialities, pediatrics, coffee shop, PT/OT, optometry,
pharmacy, ... . Multiple docs and nurses in each practi
On 10/1/2019 10:26 AM, Frederik Ramm wrote:
Case 1: http://www.remote.org/frederik/tmp/case1.png
Two small coastal areas that look a bit like rock outcroppings.
Case 2: http://www.remote.org/frederik/tmp/case2.png
The tree-covered green area in the middle of the image
I certainly wouldn't tag
On 8/8/2019 5:52 PM, Bryce Jasmer wrote:
I’m really opposed to this idea of scaring people away from editing
objects with the “data freshness” boogie man argument. If someone
really cares about freshness, the entire history of an object is
available to you.
That's true for any single object. B
On 8/8/2019 1:28 PM, Alex Hennings wrote:
Community,
I'm planning a scripted change and would like feedback. Plans are
outlined here:
https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/Automated_edits/blackboxlogic
I'd appreciate feedback or questions in the 'Discussion' portion of
that wiki page, or within t
On 5/30/2019 4:22 PM, Abhijit Kshirsagar wrote:
Hello all,
I'm an old OSM user and have recently moved to the US.
What is the correct procedure to submit temporary (at least a few
weeks long) road closures on OSM?
Also, how long to changes typically take to make it to the
downloadable maps that t
On 4/26/2019 9:49 PM, OSM Volunteer stevea wrote:
Other than that I can't think of any tags that would be applicable to
these sorts of situations. We tend to tag the regulations themselves,
not the extent to which they're adhered to. Certainly just calling it a
park because kids play there doesn'
On 4/25/2019 8:39 PM, OSM Volunteer stevea wrote:
A hazy sort-of-emerging along with this is wider recognition that a proto_park thingy exists. Put
it in the planning departments "bin" for "department of parks budget, depending how
much we convert protected_area into human-leisure-activity in
It's like a second-hand department store. I think shop=second_hand is
correct tagging in this case, barring any surveyed details about the
inventory of the particular branch. J
On 4/26/2019 9:55 AM, Evan Derickson wrote:
They sell a mix of everything...certainly a lot of clothes, but also
furnit
On 4/20/2019 9:18 AM, Aaron Forsythe wrote:
> cycleway ; bike path ; paved path, open to bikes, & I've never seen
one that
> wasn't open to pedestrian too
These do exist. There are a few around here (Missouri, USA). In these
cases, there’s usually a separate path for pedestrians so cyclists c
On 2/9/2019 9:30 AM, Ilya Zverev wrote:
Yesterday I took ~1 mln rides we made in December and matched them to
the OSM road network. With that I found a few hundred points where an
actual trace diverged from the matched one quite often. This usually
means a oneway tag is wrong, or a turn restric
On 12/9/2018 6:38 AM, Andy Townsend wrote:
On 23/11/2018 21:24, Andy Townsend wrote (heavily snipped):
Hello,
Over the last couple of months there have been edits by a new mapper
in New York who seems to like changing things but hasn't quite got
the hang of what they're doing yet. ... Comm
On 9/25/2018 10:37 AM, Martijn van Exel wrote:
But there's also an opportunity to have the community have another
look at the area surrounding the nodes. It's only ~4600 items:
http://overpass-turbo.eu/s/Cg0 .
By far the majority of post_boxes in the USA have no operator tag: 6871
by my coun
On 9/6/2018 6:44 PM, Leif Rasmussen wrote:
First, for keeping the tagging style as consistent as possible, each
post box will be given the tag "operator:wikidata"="Q668687". This
way, even if the operator=* tags are changed later on, all post boxes
will still be consistent and easy to querry.
On 8/28/2018 3:31 PM, Leif Rasmussen wrote:
Hi everyone,
A couple of days ago, I noticed that different post boxes in the
United States had different ways of tagging that they were part of the
USPS system. Roughly 60% had "operator"="USPS", 40%
"operator"="United States Postal Service", and a
Hi USA, just wanted to bring up an issue that I've run into recently
while mapping businesses in NYC.
Whenever I'm walking through the city, I tend to whip out the phone and
check for anything missing, incorrect, or incomplete. Often this means
pausing in front of a restaurant and keying in co
On 7/25/2018 12:57 PM, Christoph Hormann wrote:
I am somewhat amazed by the fact that hardly anyone from the US
community (where a lot of mappers routinely map abroad and should be
able to empathize with Frederik being concerned about an area where he
has no first hand knowledge of) seems to fin
Thanks Jubal, this looks like fantastic no-nonsense work. Seems like it
might be wise to wait until after the Milan conference to see if a
recommended workflow will emerge to begin putting these footprints to use.
Any plans to publish data for other countries? How about quarterly diffs?
jmb
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